[ref. i8574416] Ashton-under-Lyne - Finance Officer - Place Finance Team
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Interim Finance Officer - Place Finance Team
Reference no: Tameside 0009 6213 / 1Pay Rate: up to £20.00 per hour PAYE depending on experience
37 Monday – Friday, 08:30 - 17:00
This opening assignment is for 8-9 months
City: ASHTON UNDER LYNE
This is an excellent development opportunity for anyone wanting to broaden their experience and be involved in a number of high profile pieces of work including large scale capital projects in Engineers and Town Centre regeneration schemes.
The role would be supporting both revenue and capital aspects of the budget and will play an important role in supporting budget holders to move to self service over the coming months.
Key areas of finance support that the role will provide include;- Parking Services and Licensing
- Strategic Property Services
- Engineers & Highways
- Capital schemes incl Highways and Town Centre Development
Key Responsibilities:
Contribute to the provision of financial management, technical and business planning advice, training and support within the appropriate areas of responsibilities to Elected Members, management, partners, internal and external clients.Contribute to the reporting of financial management and business data within corporate governance and specific client requirements.
Proactively assist managers in client service areas/schools to discharge their responsibilities for financial management and achieve performance targets within the parameters of the financial procedure rules, proper accounting practice and legislation.
Be personally responsible for taking all necessary steps to fully understand the business needs of the designated client services to enable the provision of professional assistance to service management and realise value for money and service improvement.
Develop and maintain excellent working relationships with clients.Ensure finance, performance and business data is reported within corporate governance and specific client requirements.
Take, or advise management to take, and/or direct the team to take corrective action on any matter that would affect the integrity of financial data or the Council’s financial performance. To immediately advise the Finance Business Partner and/or Deputy Chief Finance Officer and Chief Finance Officer on any issue that could affect the discharge of the statutory duties of the s151 officer.
Attend client management team meetings as appropriate.
Qualifications:
5 GCSE’s (Grade A-C or 9-4) including Mathematics and English Language or equivalentAAT Qualification and Membership
Experience:
Experience of Financial Ledger packages to deliver finance servicesFinance experience within an Accountancy/Finance Office or Financial environment.
Experience of budget preparation, closure of accounts or financial management.
Demonstrable experience of use of IT applications including Microsoft Applications.
Skills & Abilities:
Analytical skills to review and apply data to support decision making, recommendations on working practices, problem-solving focusing on practical solutions and service improvement
Good level of organisational skills, with the ability to manage a multi-priority workloadEffective oral and written communication skills with a confident and credible professional style.
Ability to achieve deadlines and work under pressure.
The ability to make and maintain positive working relationships with team members, managers, client’s also both internal and external partners.
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If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension, you will be working at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than umbrella pay terms.We do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity.
Due to the number of CVs being sent to us under current market conditions, unfortunately we cannot respond to all applications. If you have not heard from us within 3 working days please assume that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion.We will, however, be very happy to receive future applications from you for other roles.
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Job Ref: Tameside 0009 6213 / 1
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